10 OUR CIVILIZATION

in the sight of God. We should all desire peace,
feut this peace should be the result of our under-
standing of the unity of all thii^gs. We should
know the spiritual meaning of life* We should
pursue beauty, truth, and goodness.

Naturally we have done most useful work in
the rtaim of philosophy. Dr. C E. M. Joad has
said that there are three things which distinguish
our philosophy from the philosophy of other
nations. la the first place, it is marked by con-
tinuity; that is to say, throughout the ages it has
tad only one end in view. All our Indian philo-
sophers have sought to do only one thing. They
have tried to know what this world is and what
its purpose is. In the second place, our philo-
sophy is marked by unanimity. Indian philo-
sophers have approached this question from many
different points of view, but they have all found
almost the same answer* They have come to
find that this world is not many but one* It is a
unity, and this unity is the unity of the spirit
T0 & person who looks only at the surface, this
world appears ftp be made up of so many things,
but if he studies it carefully he finds that all these
things axe realty not different from each other.
la the third place, Indian philosophy has not
been idfe speculation. It has not dealt with the
of life in the same spirit in which a

student of mathematics might deal with
probJenis merely to satisfy his iotefteet